All-New, All-Remote Avengers #4 – ‘Resign’

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Iron Man, War Machine, and J. Jonah Jameson are on a Zoom call together on the top half of the screen. The title of the comic - "All-New, All-Remote Avengers Presents... 'Resign'" - is on the bottom half of the screen.
On the Daily Bugle's podcast, 'Reville,' J. Jonah Jameson grills Iron Man about the identity of Spider-Man.
Simultaneously to the interview, War Machine is flying through the sky, having a radio conversation with Domino about the Heroes For Hire app, and the meaning of the word "avenger."
Iron Man vows not to read sponsored ad copy for the podcast, at least until Jonah threatens to cut his microphone.
War Machine ends his call with Domino, and begins his descent into New York City.
Iron Man reluctantly reads ad copy for Roxxon Industries, International Data Integration Control (IDIC), and Hammer Industries.
Iron Man realizes that one of the ads he read was an insult to Tony Stark. War Machine lands in the middle of a city street, across from Domino, Rage, Hawkeye, and Shatterstar.
Apparently, the rest of the Avengers have been waiting on War Machine to arrive. They plan to stage a protest action to prevent the eviction of unseen residents on the nearby residential block.
The Avengers see who their opposition is: faceless agents of Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.), led by the supervillain Whirlwind. Rage mistakes Whirlwind for Dr. Doom.
The Avengers and A.I.M stand off once more, before the inevitable fight. This image also contains the credits for the comic strip, citing the Unsplash users whose photographs were the background art, the ownership of Marvel by Disney, and the figure photography/script/lettering by me, Phil Wrede.

I had a surprising amount of fun designing the various corporate icons and logos that pop up in the comic. The Daily Bugle’s logo is probably my favorite, followed by the one for Hammer Industries.

J. Jonah Jameson pulled out to an early lead as my favorite character to write in this comic, and frankly, nobody’s ever challenged that position. I try not to overload the comic with JJJ appearances, and I hope every one of them is as special to a reader as they are to me. I do like the strangely formal affect that Iron Man utilized in the comic’s early going, but I clearly abandoned that, in favor of trying to do the best job of channeling Robert Downey, Jr., that I could do.

Results have varied, I’ll admit. I’ve also really enjoyed writing Miles Morales, who makes his first (off-panel) appearance in this strip.

Too, this strip contains some of my very favorite jokes that have made their way into the comic. Rage shaking his fists in fear (or fury) at the sight of Doctor Doom, when in reality, it’s Whirlwind (who barely deserves being described as a supervillain, next to Doctor Doom) approaching will never not make me laugh. I’m still really pleased with how Iron Man’s podcast ad read came out, too.

Finally, when I found his action figure, I’d vowed to myself to find a way to work in Whirlwind’s laugh from the Captain America and the Avengers game, and I succeeded! At least, up to my standards.

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